MOORE, Montague Shadworth Seymour, VC
20 year old Second Lieutenant, 15th Bn., The Hampshire Regiment (later the Royal Hampshire Regiment), British Army in World War 1
He later achieved the rank of Major.
CITATION
On 20 August 1917 near Tower Hamlets, east of Ypres, Belgium, Second Lieutenant Moore volunteered to make a fresh attack on a final objective and went forward with some 70 men, but they met such heavy opposition that when he arrived at his objective he had only one sergeant and four men. Nothing daunted, he at once bombed a large dug-out, taking 28 prisoners, two machine-guns and a light field-gun. Gradually more officers and men arrived, numbering about 60 and he held the post for 36 hours beating off counter-attacks, until his force was reduced to 10 men. He eventually got away his wounded and withdrew under cover of thick mist.
East Africa 1915 - 1917
